The New Paper, 12 October 2008

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  • News
    • Exchange
      • 721 2  -  THE BUZZ REGGIE J tnpOsptLConisg MORE and more countries have abolished the archaic radio and TV licence fee in the last 10 years. But here* $ome are paying for a cable set-top box from StafHub and -perhaps another from SingTel And on
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      • 65 2 "My blue-chip stocks have all turned into potato chips," A 30-something investor on the market downturn. "Now I got excuse not to call my mother so often anymore." -An under grad, who stays in a campus, hostel, on the increase in SingTel's fixed-line rates. "She's mad
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      • 166 2 IThe financial meltdown on Wall Street has wiped an estimated US$8.3 trillion ($12.3 trillion) off the US stock markets in the last 365 days, a drop of 39 percent. 2 As of August this year, the Singapore stock market has shed $237.8 billion,
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      • 154 3 -10 umcenea iniBrnaiionai moves, Including interest rats cuts by several central banks, MM to one Vie global financial crWe. +20 The one bright spot falling oil prices. Pump prices wwnt deem by another 5 cents, for the
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    • Article, Illustration
      548 4  -  Hundreds offish dead at Jurong Lake, but oxygen levels at normal level ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com .sq IT is a mystery that left one "fish lover" curious. On Friday afternoon, hundreds of fish, mainly tilapia, went "belly-up" in the waters of Jurong Lake near Lakeside MRT station.
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    • 190 5 Brought to you by S3 Cin NOLL ThE New Paper Big Wak is back and for the first time, participants wil "wa*< on water". Come 2 Nov, 20,000 participants wfl be waiting a noncompetitive 5km distance from Suntec City Mai to the Marina Barrage. The event wi not onfy allow
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  • News
    • Global financial turmoil
      • 715 6  -  In HK, customers rush to withdraw savings (above), but in S'pore ELYSA CHEN etysacOspticonisg CALL it the run for the banks, and not on the banks. While some bank customers in the US and Hong Kong made a beeline to banks to
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      • 636 7 SHORTLY after the eyeball-popping terrorist attacks of 9/11, US investors on Wall Street came under a gut-wrenching attack of another kind. It was an attack similar to the kind we all saw last week when markets around the globe lost an estimated
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      • 237 7 Hippocratic Oath for managers? The Hippocratic Oath is an oath taken by doctors to ensure medicine is •practice<$pthica]ly. The following are exerpts from the oath Harvard professors Khurana and Nohria proposed for managers. ImH f ■As a manager...FTiy purpose is to serve the puoiic 8 witereei
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      • 639 8  -  Among 1,000 who turned up at Speakers' Comer are 2 who have been hit badly ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg THE injustice that she felt was so strong, she was trembling as she spoke. Last year, her parents, both retirees, had invested $250,000 in three structured
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      • 334 9 WHAT was supposed to be a favour for his mother turned out to be a huge mistake for Mr John Tbng, 50. He had gone to a finance company to open a fixed deposit account for his mother in August when he was talked into
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      • 266 9 THE frowns turned into smiles and cheers as Mr Tan Kin Lian began to speak and they saw a ray of hope. In 10-minute speeches to the 1,000 strong crowd at Hong Lim park at 5pm and 6pm yesterday, the former NTUC
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 137 10 News Global financial turmoil You're stressed out over the financial meltdown. Relax. We've scanned the Internet and come up with our own take on market changes Iwarre'r I Number of those peeing The idiotwho 1 in the as a ratio of your stock earnings -1 >' A 6 to 18
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  • News
    • 970 11  -  Filipino maid accused of illegal money/ending by friends is acquitted MAUREEN KOH A IF you lend money to your friends and receive interest on the loan, do you risk being charged with illegal moneylending? A Filipino maid spent almost one year agonising over her fate
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    • 172 12 ANOTHER CASE ON the same day of Ms Gemma Hernandez's acquittal, another Filipino maid was Jailed for 20 months for moonlighting asa loan shark. Rebecca Andicoy Alcalde (right), 28, operated only on Sundays, her day off. She dished out loans of up to $300
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    • 159 12 IN her judgement delivered on 19 Aug, District Judge Jasvender Kaur found that Ms Gemma Hernandez Sarita had showed "she is not a moneylender within the terms of the definition". Judge Kaur found that Ms Hernandez "did receive interest on the loans to
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    • 817 13  -  TRAFFIC POLICE TO MONITOR MORE ROADS ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zattianOsph.cora.sg MOTORISTS tempted to emulate Formula One drivers be warned. The Traffic Police are stepping up efforts to record speed demons with laser cameras. And those caught breaking the speed limit can
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    • 550 14  -  ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zalanesitfuxttMg COMMENT WHAT'S the big fuss with having more portable speed cameras trailing vehicles on the road? If you have not been speeding, you will not be booked by traffic cops. The truth is, most law-abiding motorists will not be affected by
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    • 689 15  -  Youngest son was also youngest Big Walker in 1994 TAY SHI'AN shian@sph.com.sg IT IS a yellowed but carefully kept piece of the family's history a newspaper clipping featuring the youngest participant of The New Paper Big Walk in 1994. Muhammad Shaqeez,
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    • 180 15 BIG WALKERS sure are fast-footed. Of the 20,000 places for The New Paper Big Walk on Water, only 380 places are left V. Registration was scheduled to end on 26 Oct, or when the 20,000 spaces were taken, whichever came first So, with
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    • 217 16 WAS this savage attack a threat against the residents of this neighbourhood in Petaling Jaya? Several car owners woke up on Friday morning to find their vehicles badly charred and burnt In the pre-dawn attack, a total of seven cars and a school bus were torched
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    • Article, Illustration
      645 16 Ex-law minister, critics ask if DPM Najib wins, will it be... THE return of authoritarian rule, or in short, "Mahathirism". That's what will happen once Datuk Seri Najib Razak (right) takes over Malaysia's top post, predicts former law minister Zaid Ibrahim In an interview with the Malaysian
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  • News
    • 321 18 BANNED WkiU < "vjn D0N7 wear this. That's what the authorities have warned English tootoa* fans who turned up at the Wortd Cup qualifier between England and Kazakhstan yesterday. The luminous green male thong, caHed a mankini, was made famous by Brit comedian
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    • 757 18 Sierrra Leone-bom Watford player set to represent country WHILE the world crashes around us, sometimes all it takes is a single story of a human being to remind us that there are things far more valuable than stocks and sharps This is
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    • 385 19 Sick woman in E_hT 1 So boyfriend BBEB* B US cant can I I in UK calls WHEN emergency operator Kerry Burrows received a bizarre plea for help, she thought it was a crank call After all, the caller had asked her to send
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    • 281 19 Teen dies as... SHE had taken a lethal mix of alcohol and pills at a party, and was "struggling to breathe". But when Melanie Boyd begged her friends to call for help, they ignored her. Such "callous indifference" is probably what cost the 16-year-old
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    • 532 20 AP. DUTCH contractor Johan Huibers has built a massive replica of Noah's Ark on a river in the small town of Schagen, about 50km north of Amsterdam. The ark, made of cedar and pine, is 68m long, almost 14m high and 9m wide. That's two-thirds the
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    • Snapshot
      • 107 21 THAILAND'S prime minister has indicated that he may resign, after fierce anti-government protests earlier this week left two people dead and hundreds injured. Mr Somchai Wongsawat, who has been premier for little more than three weeks, said he was considering his position as anti government protesters
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      • 106 21 US PRESIDENT George W Bush said yesterday that the worid's richest economies agreed the global financial meltdown requires "a serious global response". Speaking after talks with finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries, he promised a united front so that "the worid's economy
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      • 102 21 THREE companies that have outstanding salary disputes with their Bangladeshi workers are barred from hiring more foreign workers until the cases are resolved. The companies are Sans Marine Engineering Service, Han's Marine and K7 Engineering, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) said. The New
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      • 251 21 COPING WITH THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL TURMOIL SINGAPORE may have slipped into a technical recession, but Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry S Iswaran believes the country is better able to ride it out compared to the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997.
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      • Article, Illustration
        43 21 SEVERAL thousand Indonesians held a rally in Bali yesterday to oppose an anti-pornography bill. The rally took on a carnival mood with western-style music and dancing by tribesmen wearing traditional penis sheaths, body paint and head-dresses made of leaves. PICTURE REUTERS
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  • Enjoy
    • Article, Illustration
      472 23 -V> >\ v..- Family first Then Shahirah'soutto celebrate her victory SHE won the tide of Hie New Paper New Face 2006 on Friday night- and immediately headed home. But Shahirah Price, 18, wasn't ready to sleep just yet The Diploma in Marketing student at N anyang Polytechnic
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    • 65 24 HERE are all the results, in case you missed them. MAIN WINNERS The New Paper New Face 2008 Sliahirah Price 1st runner-up Sh.'itricia Nair 2nd runner-up Geraldine Chua SUBSIDIARY TITLES Subaru's Miss Vivacious Sara Chan Levi's Miss Lady Style Geraldine Chua Rowenta Miss Bella Lydia Norman Takashimaya Miss
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    • 441 25  - Fun, friends fanfare Behind the scenes at The New Paper New Face2008 YEOH WEE TECK wuuluGkOsphxonLsg TO some of The New Paper New Face 2008*8 finalists, Friday was the most glamorous and exciting night of their year. They stood on stage at Takashimaya Square, hair and make-up spot-on, rocking their
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    • Shopping
      • 278 26 IT is official: We are in recession, for the first time in six years. When the world's money markets are acting loopy, it makes sense to save every cent It may be the smartest thing you do because money gurus are reminding everyone
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      • Article, Illustration
        278 26 PARSiNG THE PURSES 1 Kipling makes adorable and colourful little purses that can stand a lot of abuse. The material is strong and at its affordable price ($43), you won't mind getting it dirty anyway. And because of the price, you may even want to buy a few in
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    • 460 27 AFTER all the tabloid ink that has been spilt on her life, pop star Britney Spears (below) will finally get to have her say. The 26-year-old singer plans to release a 90-minute special on MTV called Britney: For The RecordIt will
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  • Enjoy
    • Hed Chef
      • 285 29  -  HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com. sg FANCY a quickie? This recipe's for you then. It's easy to prepare, but it's chockfiil of goodness, especially when you leave the skin on the chicken. I love the way the fat sizzles in the pan. No chicken breast meat for me, and
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      • 176 29 1. Begin by marinating chicken. In a bowl, add chicken, rice wine, salt and pepper. Leave for at least 15 minutes to half an hour to let the wine infuse the chicken. 2. Peel the garlic cloves but leave them whole. 3. Slice the shallots. 4. In a frying
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    • 615 30  -  Coen brothers and Guy Ritchie need new tricks Flick Chick Ti4j C 9 W FIWi A AM I the only one on the planet who thinks that the Coen brothers are overrated? Ever since beloved writing-directing siblings Joel and Ethan Coen debuted in die '80s with Blood
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    • Dr Date
      • 489 31  -  Jk'Wi Utf L vZ SUPPORT and encouragement from friends and fans have been surprisingly solid and overwhelming. But there still are those few in various comers of Singapore's society who try to cast aspersions upon my character and question why I write this column. So
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      • 178 31 11 ____1 Dear Nuri. You may think that the responsibility for the approach rests on the man's shoulders. Surprisingly though, research shows that women actually initiate two-thirds of all personal encounters. Just like the birds, the bees, and other wonderful creatures in the natural world, women use
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      • 43 31 Have problems finding love? Make a date with Dr Date. He'd go over the finer points of I courtship in hte weekly column in The New Paper on Sunday, t-maii your questions to tnpOsph.com.sg ||p, i IMHHHM Hb. '*u -i
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    • Columns
      • 679 32  -  A A I WENT through the story published in this paper on Thursday with mixed feelings. Headlined "She slaps son for getting 92 marks", it told of how a Madam Sim changed her attitude towards her son after volunteering in his school She had
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      • 605 32  -  A A EVER since I came here, I've been asked about life in the UK. Admittedly, some info I gave out has had its truth tampered police officers should be addressed as "Darling"' Buckingham Palace serves the best
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    • Humour
      • 646 33 GLOBAL financial markets are going through their biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the early '30s but unlike in the old days, today's failed businessmen are not jumping off the ledges of tall buildings in droves. That's probably because most
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      • REALLY?
        • 116 33 AP A DEIHOIT man may end up beinq the worst robber ever he not only failed to rob his victim, hut ended up qivmq the hitter money instead Police m the Detroit suburb of Warren said the robber approached a :{f> year-old man
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        • 124 33 AFP AFP. AS Latvia struggles with recession, betting on official monthly inflation figures has become an opportunity to strike it rich, with bookmakers offering attractive odds. Online bookies had been taking bets on September year-on-year annual inflation figures, which were released on Wednesday. Gamblers betting
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      • 422 33  -  S M ONG ACT61UR IT was not a pretty sight. No, actually, at first I thought the picture of TheatreWorks' Ong Keng Sen wearing heavy make-up, pearls, a black dress and a blue wig in The Straits Times two Thursdays ago was
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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    • 308 34 SEEING STARS BY KUAH SENG SENG LIBRA: Your smugness in moving your money from stocks to gold will be short-lived when it is discovered that your bullion is tainted with melamine. SCORPIO: While conducting a self-appendectomy to save money, you will remain conscious long enough to realise that you removed
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 442 35 Enj oy TV 1 HITMAN: Made Wahlberg goes on the run in Shooter. CHANNEL5 MSgS Football Asia Show 2008/Whacked Out B Sports jj&K Movie: Father of the Bride II 340 n Planet's Funniest Animals/Fashion Police s as? Mf Identity II flp.'-.' The Simpsons 7 JO 5 President's Star Charity 2008
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    216 36 Enjoy Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpfoaim@sph.com.sg Dear Sheeren, it's not who you are to the world, it's who you are to me. It's
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  • Sports
    • Racing
      • 382 37 FORMER Kranji-based galloper Dark General proved too slick in Race 6 at Kuala Lumpur yesterday and gave The New Paper (TNP) three consecutive best bet strike. At Kranji last Friday, best bet Luminous Dragon scored easily in the opening event and I Tawt I
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      • 503 37 Racel WESTSPEED 2YO PLATE 1000M 8 GOLD ROCKS 53(11-7) PCartwy (3) 1 5 LAUGH UNES 55 (74-33)... SGruddy (4) 2 2 1 OWE YOU 55 (28-11) WPfce (6) 3 Trainer P Giadresco Margins: 0.75, nk, 1.5. Time: 58.615ec. BOB: $14. Forecast: $37. Tierce: $223. Trta $37. Comae witititfi Wmtartey
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      • 979 38 RACE 1 (1,200m) Lucky World (No. 1) needs to overcome a big weight but was a very convincing winner on opening day over today's trip following a stable change and does appear ready to head higher in the handicaps. Sure Gain (4) secured a minor
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        234 39 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Marc Tan RACE 1 MCE 2 MCE 3 MCE4 MCE 5 MCE I RACE 7 MCE8 RACES MCE 11 RACE 11 1 Joker De Armada Maxim Gun Just In Time Best Humour i D'Mghrty Kingdom V Dream Again Keiantan 1 Royal Jet .Bright
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      • 1103 39 RACE 1 GOLDEN TIGER was slow to begin. THE PILOT was obliged to race wide throughout Shortly after the start, WORLD TOP was momentarily crowded between CHARMING ANGEL and FASHION THUNDER Near the 500m, WORLD TOP momentarily steadied when racing tight
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    • Mad about Golf
      • 723 41  -  STEVE NEWELL NOSTALGIA is like a harmless drug. It can give you that lovely warm, fuzzy feeling. But at the same time it can also cloud your sense of judgment Making assessments or drawing any firm conclusions while under the influence, as it were,
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      • 664 42  -  LIM HAN MING npsporlsOsph.com.sg HE DID not fancy his chances of making it to the world finals in the United States when he signed up for the World Golfers Championship Singapore 2008. It was a dream come true for Ryan Lee when he emerged as the
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      • 272 42 AFP. SOUTH Korea's Kim In Kyung recorded four birdies and carded a three-under par 69 in the second round of the Longs Drugs Challenge on Friday. Kim (above) holds a one-shot lead over Mollie Fankhauser and a two-stroke lead over world No. 1 Lorena
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      • 633 43  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg FOUR years ago, Mardan Mamat won his first Asian Tour tide at the Royal Challenge Indian Open. Will it be Lam Chih Bing's turn this year? The Republic's No. 2 golfer has an outside chance of emulating Mardan's feat when
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      • 262 43 AP. SWEDEN completed a wire-to-wire win in the Espirito Santo women's amateur team golf tournament yesterday, claiming the trophy by 12 strokes over Spain. Sweden led by no fewer than eight strokes after all four rounds of the tournament over two Adelaide courses
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      • 111 43 GOLF Digest Singapore has been named the nfflrial magazine of the Barclays Singapore Open for both2oo6 and2oo6. This partnership has come a year after SPH Magazines Pte Ltd (SPH Magazines) launched the premier magazine as the Singapore edition of Golf Digest, a Conde
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      • 105 43 AP. FIVE-TIME Major champion Seveßallesteros remained in the hospital on Friday despite moving out of the intensive care unit four days after being admitted because of a dizzy spefl. Madrid's La Paz hospital said that the 51-year-oki Spaniard was in "stable condition'' and that tests to
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      • 82 43 m CHARITY was the keyword at one of the oldest corporate golf events in Singapore. The Daikin Singapore Charity Golf event yesterday at Tanah Merah's Garden course raised $150,000 $75,000 from donations and a top-up by the leading airconditioning company. Daikin Singapore's executive director Michael Goh said
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    • Article, Illustration
      538 44 UM HAN MING'S PICK: PAULA CREAMER Flava of the Week IT WAS a happy homecoming of sorts for Paula Creamer last week. The 23-year-old American golfer, nicknamed "Pmk Panther" for her fondness for the colour pink, made a tricky four-foot par putt on the 72nd hole last Sunday
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    • 611 45  -  Sports Celebrities LIM SAY HENG npsportsOsph.com.sg TO SAY that Felicia Chin is just a sporty celebrity is a major understatement. After all, the bubbly actress made the national softball team at 15, the
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    • Formula One
      • 295 47  -  LI A IT WAS against all odds. Renault's Fernando Alonso showed the world exactly why he has won two world titles by beating all odds in Singapore and scoring a surprise victory from 15th on the grid with a car I would say is inferior
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      • 176 47 QUESTION marks about tyres have resurfaced since last year's Fuji was a washout and Bridgestone didn't have enough testing time for normal tyres. There were many question marks about whether there would be any tyre problems with the lower ambient temperatures of night racing in Singapore since Singapore
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      • 204 47 FERRARI is still the only team in Formula One to use the traffic light system instead ofthe normal man with a lollipop. Is this system better? They have proven that their system is acouple of ahundredthofa second faster then the normal lollipop due to reaction time of
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      • 142 47 SINCE Fuji Speedway was originally designed for Nascar racing, it was built with extreme banks for extremely high speed racing thus safety has always been a problem with Fuji Speedway as the high speed turns were the cause of many major accidents. To improve of safety, Fuji
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      • 587 48 Reuters. MCLAREN'S Lewis Hamilton boosted his Formula One world title chances by roaring to pole position for today's Japanese Grand Prix while Ferrari rival Felipe Massa could qualify only fifth. The Briton, who leads the standings by seven points from Massa with three races remaining, starts ahead
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      321 49 Multi-disciplinary sports events like biathlons are getting more and more popular here, with today's Keppel Offshore Marine Quadthlon being the latest offering. UM SAY HENG and infographicsjournalist KELVIN CHAN break dovmeaeteventtype. BIATHLON Distances j j 1.5km 10km Technically, a biathlon is a sporting event made up of two disciplines.
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    • 608 50  -  EPL kuan LAmAMQwiuiftVv^K IF YOU seek a charming comedy imp, look no further than Claudio Ranieri. tf it's a football manager you need, please move along. The manager of Juventus, currently not setting Serie A alight, revealed this week why he didn't sign Xabi Alonso
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    • 525 51 PA Sport. THE trend of foreign owners taking over English clubs is continuing. Chariton could become the latest club in English football to move into foreign ownership after receiving an indicative offer from a group of Dubai-based investors. The Addicks, who currently lie 14th in the
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    • 81 51 1 I Manchester City Owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group from the United Arab Emirates since 2008. HH sflMiBi Liverpool Owned by George GillettJrandTom Hicks from the US since 2007. 3 ■Aston Villa Owned by Randy Lerner from the US since 2006. 4
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      • 380 52  -  EXCLUSIVE STEVE BATES SpecM Correspondent JOSE Mourinho's love affair with the Premier League and English football isn't over. He proved it by renewing his links with the League Managers' Association (LMA). I can reveal that Mourinho, now managing in Serie A at Inter-Milan, has
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      • 420 52 STEVE HATES LIVERPOOL'S co-owner Tom Hicks has commissioned a firm of architects to draw up plans to expand the exisiting Anfield. This has sparked fears he's on close to abandoning plans to build a new high-tech stadium. I can reveal that Hicks made the decision
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    • 637 54 U-21 Internationals EH® PA Sport. ENGLAND Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce paid Wales the ultimate compliment after his side's 3-2 Uefa Championship play-off first-leg win in Cardiff. Pearce admitted that his side had been forced to battle right to the end at Ninian Park by a
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    • 369 55 PA Sport. FABIO Capello insists being England coach is not an impossible job. Failure to qualify for Euro08 and the inevitable criticism that followed left England's players at a low ebb last season, with international duty increasingly something to be endured rather than enjoyed. With the
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    • 363 55 AFP. PlAYfor the team. Fabio Capello has warned Steven Gerrard that he wffl have to sacrifice his ambition to be England's main man if be wants to keep his place in tiie national side. Gerrard recently claimed he had only played in his favoured central
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        350 56 VENEZUELA v BRAZIL Reuters. WORLD Player of the Year Kaka will make his first Brazil appearance in 11 months when they visit Venezuela for a World Cup Qualifier today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Nagging injuries have prevented Kaka from representing his country and also raised questions over his
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      • 180 56 AND SO IS HE Reuters. CONTROVERSIAL striker gtfv Adriano is set to lead Brazil's attack in today's World Cup Qualifier away to Venezuela. w Adriano partnered Robinho in a training match for the first team against the reserves on Wednesday, which in Brazil is a reliable indication of the line-up
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  • 466 58 Wire services. INTER-MILAN striker Hernan Crespo has hit out at coach Jose Mourinho for barely playing him this season and for leaving him out of the Champions League squad. "I'm not angry but the situation could have been handled better. They have not explained the
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